Bring Orca Chief by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd into your classroom with this engaging, ready-to-teach 5-day read-aloud unit.

Through thoughtful discussion, layered texts, collaborative learning, and purposeful writing, students explore Indigenous storytelling, respect for nature, stewardship, family, community, leadership, and the interconnectedness of living things.

What’s Included

• 5 complete interactive read-aloud lessons
• Teacher guide and week-at-a-glance
• Learning goals and success criteria
• Before-, during-, and after-reading discussion prompts
• Community Circle discussion questions
• Collaborative anchor chart activities
• Grade-specific writing prompts for Grades 1–3
• Carefully selected layered texts and multimedia
• Fiction and nonfiction connections
• Essential question and big ideas
• Follow-up discussion and response activities
• Connections to Gholdy Muhammad’s 5 Pursuits
• Ontario Language Curriculum (2023) connections

Students Will Explore

• Respect for nature and the natural world
• Caring for and protecting the environment
• How living things depend on one another
• Family and community
• Leadership and responsibility
• Connections between people, animals, land, and community
• Indigenous storytelling and perspectives
• How stories can help us understand the world

Perfect For

• Interactive read-alouds
• Reading comprehension
• Oral language and discussion
• Writing
• Indigenous education
• Environmental learning
• Connecting fiction and nonfiction
• Earth Day
• National Indigenous Peoples Day
• Primary literacy
• Grades 1–3

This low-prep unit provides meaningful literacy learning while giving students opportunities to build knowledge, think deeply, listen to different perspectives, and make connections between the story and the world around them.

Please note: The picture book is not included.